Where: Spain (36.5° N, 5.1° W: paleocoordinates 36.5° N, 5.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From unnamed lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Early Pliocene (Zanclean) on the basis of foraminiferans, calcareous nannoplankton, ostracods and molluscs. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From sandy facies, presumably of the upper transgressive unit.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: COLLECTORS: From multiple collectors, including J. Martinell. REPOSITORY: ZPAK.

Primary reference: M. C. Lozano Francisco, J. L. Vera Pelaez, and A. Guerra-Merchan. 1993. Arcoida (Mollusca, Bivalvia) del Plioceno de la provincia de Malaga, Espana [Pliocene Arcoida from Malaga, Spain]. Treballs del Museu de Geologia de Barcelona 3:157-188 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71910: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.05.2007, edited by Austin Hendy

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